Grounded Videos

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African Vulture's "Caillou calls Baby Sister Stupid/Grounded," one of the most viewed grounded videos. Infamously known for being covered by YouTuber, Pyrocynical.

"Zack gets in trouble at school," from Zack Gets Grounded, one of the more popular grounded series before Caillou Gets Grounded.

On YouTube, a subculture of videos that utilizes GoAnimate or Plotagon emerged in 2011. Colloquially known as "grounded videos". Grounded videos are inspired by South Park and the premise of a grounded video is usually about a character (example: a character hated by the user (Most commonly the character of the hit Canadian cartoon, "Caillou"), a made-up OCs, etc.) doing something that the title already implies that ranges from just standing on frame to starting a bad behavior and gets confronted by an authority figure. The authority figure then scolds the troublesome character and character receives an over-the-top punishment. Often, this is being grounded for an extremely long time, such as a century or multiple decades, and more often than not, exaggerated into billions of years. These videos can reach thousands or even millions of views on YouTube in a matter of months and gives reaction videos content ideas. 2016 was the year for grounded videos, many of these quickly made videos where being created and reacted to almost unstoppable. Grounding videos are usually created with the intent of comedic effect, as the text-to-speech system Vyond uses to provide voices can fail to recognize the large numbers used in those videos, and often reads onomatopoeic sounds as literal words rather than expressions.

History

The first video made from GoAnimate which involved grounding was made on January 22, 2009 by tienoz (known on YouTube as Duong Thuy Tien). It was titled The Boss Of Everything - YOU"LL GET OLD.

The first official grounded video, which used Comedy World and text-to-speech voices, was made on July 2nd 2011 by Adamkleinschmidt2003. It was titled Brian Gets In Trouble At School.

And ever since that video, more grounded videos involving OC characters came to existance. mrlegofan404 created what is considered the first ever grounded series in Eric Gets Grounded, with the first episode titled Eric Gets In Trouble At School. And adamkleinschmidt2003 followed suit with his Brian character around that same time.

mrlegofan404 would create the character of Kevin that same year for a non-grounded series called "David And Joey", which only consisted of three episodes before it was abandoned. However, ever since that character was originally created, an unknown GoAnimator came to play and created a grounded series focusing on that character before December of 2011, making it the first ever rendition of Kevin Gets Grounded on record.

In December 2011, after establishing his part in GoAnimate Grounded, that same unknown creator would go on to create his own grounded series called "Zack Gets Grounded," the first original grounded series since Eric. Starting off with "Zack gets in trouble at school" and a slew of other episodes inspired by adamkleinschmidt2003, mrlegofan404, gretakyran, and several others. Several spin-offs were made from the series but were cancelled.

More OC grounded series would come out. JoshTehBiker10/Josh The Magnet would create Josh Gets Grounded, gretakyran would create Erika Gets Grounded in 2011 and Kate Gets Grounded that same year, crazysparkle123 would create Mike and Maya, and luccieighteen for Diesel, Brian, Jerry, and Joyce And Jane Gets Grounded.

User gets grounded videos would see its own trend in 2011 when a well known GoAnimate troll named Memy9909 would steal people's videos, copy them scene-by-scene, steal characters and ruin them, and such. Memy9909 would be more notorious for such an example and it would plague the community for many years to come.

The first "Caillou Gets Grounded" video was created by a longtime GoAnimate user, African Vulture on December 13, 2013 was titled "Caillou calls the baby stupid and gets grounded".

The first "Rosie Gets Grounded" video was created on January 29, 2014.

The first grounded video produced in Business Friendly was Caillou Sets Gilbert Off on January 16, 2015.

Other software is also used for grounded videos. For example, Billy gets grounded is made with Toontastic and sometimes with an app called Puppet Pals HD.

The most liked comment on a GoAnimate video is on the video titled, "Rosie feeds Caillou a worm/ BAD punishment day", uploaded by "Cai-Lab". The comment was made by the YouTuber, "now. (@mmm3235)", and the comment has 1.1K likes. The comment is a poll that asks people whether Caillou or Rosie are better. The comment instructs people to answer by liking the comment if they think Caillou is better and replying if they think Rosie is better.

As of September 24, 2024, TheMapotakes makes Snap! projects of Alonzo and Gobo videos.

Basis for most of these videos what occurs in a grounded videos are usually summarized in the title. A character of choice does action they may or may not intentionally plan. The character may have gotten a "Dead Meat card" on behavior card day or just plainly committed an action that is considered bad in the creator's eyes. An authority figure then confronts the troublemaker where they get grounded for often an oddly specific amount of time represented by a bunch of numbers that are spammed in the text-to-speech box, usually taking them home first. The troublemaker then runs off crying and disappears until the next video. Caillou or Rosie, his little sister in the TV show, are usually the focus of these videos, getting grounded by their sometimes abusive parents who are named Boris and Doris respectively. Another titular children's show character, Dora the Explorer, can also be the focus of a typical GoAnimate grounded video, often being portrayed as Caillou's girlfriend. Caillou is often named "Kayloo" in these videos as some text-to-speech voices can't properly pronounce the preschool character's name.

Common formats:

• Character misbehaves at public gathering.
• Character misbehaves during a trip.
• Character gets "Dead Meat" in behavior card day.
• Character does not follow direction.
• Character engages in a popular meme or fad.
• Character commits murder.
• Character does something that is considered stupid in the creator's eyes.
• Character helps or befriend a hated human being.
• Character truant or ditches event to go to somewhere exciting (may vary but often Chuck E. Cheese's).
• Character just exists or appears on frame.
• Character insults another or institution.
• Characters misbehaving in stores or restaurants and commonly destroying them because they want something that is out of stock or expensive.
• Character does something while grounded.
• Character gets grounded for nothing.
• Character getting strikes and gets grounded (commonly 3,5, or 10).
• Character getting grounded after punishment day.
• Character stealing a vehicle (commonly a car) and then crashing it into an area (e.g., a house or school).
• Character makes a fake VHS opening.
• Character grounds a another the creator likes, or ungrounds a another the creator doesn't like.
• Character insults a baby.
• Character gets arrested.
• Character's punishment day.
• Character sells laughing lemonade.
• Character makes a grounded video of a good guy.
• Character fires the teacher.
• Character destroys a location.
• Character's parents are simply abusive.
• Character says "Yes" to something the creator hates or "No" to something the creator likes.
• Character rants on something the creator likes.
• Character salutes on something the creator hates.

Trivia

• Some grounded videos are not even made with GoAnimate.
• Grounded videos were inspired by South Park.
• Caillou was actually grounded on two episodes of YouTube reboot Caillou's New Adventures on the official Caillou YouTube Channel likely due to the popularity of the GoAnimate videos involving him, therefore making it canon that Caillou has, in fact, been grounded.
• The quality of these videos caused many outsiders who never had any experience with GoAnimate believe that the site itself is not a good one in terms of quality.
• Grounded videos are the most popular genre of GoAnimate videos and have been since 2015.
• Grounded videos were commonly created with the Comedy World theme until the removal of the theme in 2016. However, the Comedy World theme assets are still in use by some users who got access or via fan-made revivals such as Wrapper Offline or FlashThemes.
• Many YouTubers have made parody videos of grounded videos, such as NeonGreenKing's Caillou Gets Grounded In Real Life (Not For Kids).
• Most Grounded videos are carbon copies of videos made by other GoAnimate users.
• Grounded videos are largely disliked by many people in the GoAnimate/Vyond fandom/community.
• Business Friendly is the second most used theme when it comes to producing Grounded Videos, though it had been popular since Comedy World was removed in 2016, since Business Friendly has some similarities with Comedy World in terms of functionality.
• The opposite of these videos are ungrounded videos, which can also have similar formats.

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The Fans

Fans on grounded videos are overall a mixed bag. Plenty of fans respect opinions from users outside the community, collaborate with non-grounded video makers, and assist others. A large portion of them, however, are viewed as "bigotic users between under age of 12; some of which are adults who behave immaturely". These types of users could sometimes disrespect opinions from grounded video haters (posting grounded threats to their channels). They might also upload grounded threat videos recorded with their webcam (exposing themselves to the public; cyber-grounding somebody else). Some of these users may unsubscribe from channels force others into liking GoAnimate and hating Flash and kids/baby shows. Many grounded YouTubers upload different videos once in a while, and some of them have fully departed from grounded videos all together, such as AMSalley94.

Tropes

• Saying the word "grounded" numerous times in an attempt to emphasize that the victim is being punished.
• Saying "oh oh oh" repeatedly.
• Grounding the victim for unrealistic lengths of time, including but not limited to:
  • Life
  • Huge numbers of years, decades, or centuries, usually created just by mashing random numbers on the keyboard (like 91837546892345)
  • Triple tranquility years
  • Eternity
  • Infinity years
  • The heat death of the universe
• Using the dance, cheer, point, taunt or laugh animation (or in the case of buff characters, show off) as there are no real animations in Comedy World specifically to convey anger.
• Mispronouncing certain characters' names as the text-to-speech software is not very flexible in terms of pronouncing more unique names like Caillou, instead either using Kayloo or Kay-Eye-Oo.

Troublemakers

There are many troublemakers who get grounded, often being characters in children's shows.

Common troublemakers in grounded videos:

• Frankie Cohen (AidenTheSubaruFan2001)
• Eric (mrlegofan404, Lane's GA World)
• Kenward (Sometimes)
• Ash Ketchum
• Caillou (Always)
• Rosie
• Brian (adamkleinschmidt2003)
• Elephant Sharkerson
• Steve
• Erika Armstrong
• Letters
• Beavis And Butt-Head (in some cases)
• Johnny Abatti
• Jordan Arthur McFarland
• Alexis Jessica Byrd
• Ellen Taylor Leonard
• Jason Singer
• Michael Jonathan Warner
• Cory Carson
• Olly the Little White Van
• Bo (from the show Bo on the Go) (Unknown)
• Bezzy (Unknown)
• Victor Bryant
• Logos
• Floating Jpg
• Spencer Karter
• Rachael Jane Bradshaw
• Ty Austin Porter
• Carter James Porter
• Gordy Rhinehart
• Gina Lash
• Nanette Manior (Angela Anaconda)
• Mavis Dracula (Hotel Transylvania)
• Tim and Moby (BrainPOP)
• Gaylord Steambath (The Noob Adventures)
• Shane and David (The Upside Down Show)
• Eteled Ridgewell
• Kate
• Derek Watson
• Andrew Biggson
• The Triplets (Eric, Brian, and Alan)
• Mike and Maya
• Maya Penza
• Fred
• Jock
• Trump
• The Trix (Winx Club)
• Bucky
• Bongo
• Clyde (formerly)
• Stephanie Gavin
• Eric Cartman (non-troublemaker in certain cases)
• Caillou (non-troublemaker in certain cases)
• Coulden Pettit (XavierMitochornia)
• Dora (non-troublemaker in certain cases)
• Boots the Monkey
• Benny, Isa, and Tico
• Azul the Blue Train (rare cases)
• Little Bill (non-troublemaker in certain cases)
• Fora
• Misfortune (Little Misfortune)
• (Nechaev)
• Master Frown (Unikitty!)
• Megatron
• You Is Dumb
• Barney the Purple Dinosaur
• JJ, YoYo, and TomTom (Cocomelon)
• Jadoo Choe
• Althea Andrea
• Any Youtube Faction Member, e.g. UTTP (Because they're at war, pretty much.)
• Any 'bad user' or internet troll
• The Bad Piggies (Angry Birds)
• Jeff 171 (formerly)
• Clyde (How many times do I have to say formerly?)
• Any object show troublemaker
• Two (BFB/BFDI: TPOT)
• Robot Chicken Counterparts of good characters
• Peppa Pig
• The Little Einsteins
• The Backyardigans
• Shimmer and Shine (Sometimes)
• Abby Hatcher
• Nella the Princess Knight
• Dark Dinosaur
• Light Dinosaur
• Evil Dinosaur
• Horrid Henry
• Daria Morgendorffer (Sometimes)
• Chick Hicks
• Jackson Storm
• Morag
• Andrew Morris
• Ercole Visconti
• El Primero
• Thomas The Tank Engine (All Engines Go! counterpart)
• Rusty Rivets
• Ben and Holly
• Ollie the Baby Shark
• Pinkfong
• Emperor Palpatine
• Corn & Peg
• Feetface (Noggin/Nick Jr.)
• Moose A. Moose (Noggin/Nick Jr.)
• Zee D. Bird (Noggin/Nick Jr.)
• Molly Mabray (Molly Of Denali)
• Redd (Animal Crossing)
• Tom Nook (Animal Crossing)
• Ugly Animal Crossing Villagers
• Beavis and Butthead
• Clarence
• Kenny McCormick
• Stewie Griffin
• Bart Simpson
• Mike The Knight
• Tree Fu Tom
• Franklin
• Max & Ruby
• Kai-Lan
• Pingu
• Bob The Builder (original)
• Bob the Builder (2015 reboot)
• Handy Manny
• The Wiggles
• Wubbzy and Daizy
• Thomas The Tank Engine (more commonly non-troublemaker)
• Devious Diesel (Thomas & Friends)
• Diesel 10 (Thomas & Friends)
• Other antagonists from Thomas & Friends, including fan-made characters
• The Teletubbies
• Iggle Piggle
• Elmo
• Cookie Monster
• Ernie and Bert
• Zoe
• Grover
• Abby Cadabby
• 'Good users' (rare but not impossible)
• Boj
• Real-life people the creator hates (Ex: Justin Bieber)
• Certain politics (rare)
• Infamous people (Ex: Adolf Hitler)
• Numberblocks (except 12 and 18 in Charles Selig's videos)
• Oc's/Uc's (ex: Nano variants, Numberblock uc's, Bluey uc's, Caillou uc's, (type) clones, and many more.)
• The video creator themselves (rare)
• The Bubble Guppies
• Super Why and the Super Readers
• The Wonder Pets
• Oswald the Octopus
• Tubb the Frog
• Companies/Corporate entities (ex: Klasky Cuspo; rare but not impossible)
• Steve, Joe and Kevin (Blue's Clues)
• Wasps (With some universes, they usually side with the troublemaker(s), usually being part of plans. Ex. Person 1 places wasps nest on Person 2's bed. Characters use wasps as a way to pain the victim, usually in revenge or anger.)
• Gayloo (Laziness Videos , Formerly in True animate and DiamondCounter)
• Elmer Fudd
• Wile E. Coyote
• The entire cast of LazyTown
• Teen Titans Go Characters (Since 2016)
• Blaze the Monster Machine
• Deedee, Rooney, and Moe
• Squidward Tentacles
• Dave and Larry (TheN&WClassA1218/TheColossalD; formerly)
• Lilie (Eight Marbles)
• Jeffy (SML)
• Dark Bowser (Weatherstar4000video)
• Dark Mario Enemies (Weatherstar4000video)
• Various Super Mario Enemies (Some are good)
• Boris (non-troublemaker in certain cases)
• Coris
• Goris
• Toris
• Rosie (non-troublemaker in certain cases)
• Doris (non-troublemaker in certain cases)
• Classic Caillou
• Arthur (non-troublemaker in certain cases)
• Big Baby Tom (acts like a big baby, cause making a scheme)
• Soviet (RenderOfficialPerson)
• brothermifs (RenderOfficialPerson)
• Riggy The Rabbit Monkey (Danno Cal Drawings)
• Joseph Christopher Reid
• Will (Everything's Rosie)
• Mr. Kronk
• Cedric White
• Kimberly Palmer
• Characters from Baby Einstein
• Windows OSs
• Object Show Characters
• Dejiko
• Childish Dad

If on Scratch, these troublemakers are also common:

• AN evil /dark/anti/shadowclone of a good guy
• Lisa Lereon
• Miss Henry
• Nano
• Clyde
• Giga
• Other Scratchers

There is a chance there may be multiple troublemakers, but this is somewhat rare.

List of Confusions:

Several people have confused these for:

1. Elsagate/COPPA (due to kids show characters being in inappropriate/disturbing situations; some of these videos were mislabeled as "Made for kids" on Youtube)
2. The Actual Shows (https://www.imdb.com/user/ur26949344/?ref_=tt_urv)
3. Family Guy Cutaway Gags (one YouTube reviewer confused it for that; Due to the theme Comedy World being inspired by Family Guy)
4. YouTube Poops (due to the risque nature of it)
5. Intentionally Lazy Animation (several optimistic GoAnimate "rants" confuse it)
6. Child Abuse (mostly due to #7)
7. Punishment Days (since they are often overlapped with each other)
8. MS Paint Videos (due to the TTS voices)
9. Kid Friendly Fan Content (some videos are actually kid friendly)
10. Toy Reviews (https://www.imdb.com/user/ur26949344/?ref_=tt_urv)
11. South Park

Trashy Vyond Videos Wiki

“Trashy Vyond Videos Wiki” is a Wiki from Miraheze that explains hated Vyond video types. It was Founded by an Unknown Miraheze User.

There is a page on these videos: https://trashyvyondvideos.miraheze.org/wiki/Grounded_and_punishment_day_videos

Examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPm_AInzSH8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6HuZunRRQ8&t=7s

Ungrounded Videos

Ungrounded videos are the opposite of grounded videos. Unlike grounded videos, the main character does a positive action (eg. helping each other), usually while grounded, and gets ungrounded for it, often for life, or sometimes an obscenely long amount of years, if any specific amount. Often, children are the subject of ungroundings, and are ungrounded by their parents, often with the line "You are ungrounded for life. You can do whatever you want!".

Plot

The main character often plans to do something good to get out of a grounding, then acts upon it. Reasons for getting ungrounded include:

• Helping each other
• Sharing
• Doing chores
• Making something great for other people
• Behaves somewhere, such as a restaurant or school
• Getting a good report card, behavior card or grades
• They babysit, or behave while babysat
• Reviving a dead person or other animal
• He/she wishes a good person a good holiday
• Telling the truth
• Bring down dictatorships
• Getting a bad person's account terminated
• Getting a bad person grounded or even arrested
• Preventing crimes
• Fake wishing a happy birthday to a bad person
• Fake wishing an unhappy birthday to a good person
• Controlling a bad person
• Rebuilds destroyed locations
• Beating up troublemakers
• Doing a bad deed and blaming it on a troublemaker

Grounded for Life

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Coulden Pettit after hearing the hated phrase.

The term grounded for life is somewhat an uncommon phrase commonly used by Diesel fathers and Kimberly mothers. Every time a parent says to their child that they are grounded for life, Coulden will make a roaring sound (as well as roaring out a roar from Godzilla) to indicate his feeling of anger; either this or they send in Jazzi, Foo, Custard, Noodle, or Ka-Chung to beat him or her up, due to his morbid hatred of the phrase. Angrywalkthroughs, RobertCoatesAnimation and even TacoComedian commonly use this term. Ihatewarren37 uses the term "You are grounded for an infinite time!", a possible variant. Another variant was Coulden's "You are grounded for all time!".

Users of this term:

• angrywalkthroughs (uses this term the most)
• TacoComedian (also uses this term the most)
• DiamondEricAnimates (uncommonly)
• caroline0204 (sometimes)
• RobertCoatesAnimation
• Momo YouMookSaidTimon (rarely uses this term)
• louielouie95 (sometimes)
• DavidtheAnimationGuy (mostly)
• Slippy V (sometimes)
• Almost everybody
• Charlie Kowalski (rarely)
• Ecolercomedian99
• Landon Dibbles (rarely)
• S1MPIEC0MPUTERS (from video requests)
• Ihatewarren37 (sometimes, mostly uses variant)
• Tommy62702 (a lot of times)
• BondFan94 (mostly)
• ORIOSELECTRONICS135 (either mostly or all the time)
• Curiousgorge55 (in Macusoper grounded videos/concepts)
• Linus Nils Weber (formerly)
• Mostly new GoAnimators

Users who don't use this term:

• Coulden Pettit (uses the variant to substitute the hated term)
• Blue Mario
• TrigonometryComedian

Trivia

• Coulden, Blue Mario and TrigonometryComedian are the only users who don't use this term.
• This term and "grounded forever" can be used interchangeably, depending on what the user types in the dialogue.

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